Chapter XI: A Knife in the Dark There’s a significant change in tone across the last few chapters of Book I of The Fellowship of the Ring. Chapter I, ‘A Long Expected Party’ is a bridge between the children’s tale of The Hobbit and the grown-up tale of The Lord of the Rings. We see … Continue reading LotR Reread: Maybe Don’t Bring a Hobbit to a Sword Fight
ARC Review: Empire of Sand
Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri Fantasy 496 pages Expected publication November 13, 2018 by Orbit From Goodreads: A nobleman’s daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri’s captivating, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy. The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, … Continue reading ARC Review: Empire of Sand
ARC Review: Blood is Blood
Blood is Blood (Barker and Llewellyn #10) by Will Thomas Mystery 320 pages Expected Publication November 13, 2018 by Minotaur From Goodreads: A bombing injures private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker, leaving it up to his soon-to-be-married junior partner Thomas Llewelyn to find the person trying to murder them both before it's too late—in the newest … Continue reading ARC Review: Blood is Blood
Library Sale Book Haul
My public library has a big book sale every Fall. They take over the largest room in a local convention center for four days, and it draws hundreds of people. This year's sale was over the weekend, and so I drove out through an early snowstorm to pore over the remnants, which was still a … Continue reading Library Sale Book Haul
Goodreads Monday: The Opposite of Loneliness
Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme where we randomly select a book from our Goodreads To Be Read list and share it with the world. It’s hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners, so be sure to link back to her site so that we can all see what everyone plans to read! The Opposite of … Continue reading Goodreads Monday: The Opposite of Loneliness
Sunday Sum-Up
Someday I am going to look back through my bullet journal and wonder why I wrote "Who is the patron saint of umbrellas?". Or perhaps not. I have always had rotten luck with umbrellas. It's been a week of clouds and rain, and especially so on my day off. I decided to walk over to … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up
LotR Reread: In Which the Company Meets a Tall, Dark Stranger
IX. At the Sign of the Prancing Pony Bree-land is an island of habitation in the midst of an empty and wild land. There are four other towns besides Bree itself: Staddle, Combe, Archet, and Chetwood. It is inhabited by brown-haired, rather short people who are cheerful and independent. There’s no one around to govern … Continue reading LotR Reread: In Which the Company Meets a Tall, Dark Stranger
Try a Chapter Challenge, pt. 2
Last week, I posted Part One of the 'Try a Chapter Challenge' and talked about the books I had chosen as part of the challenge. Thanks to the computer issues I spent most of my writing time dealing with, I'm writing the follow up later than I wanted to. Oops. Anyway. Thanks to the … Continue reading Try a Chapter Challenge, pt. 2
Goodreads Monday: Metamorphica
Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme where we randomly select a book from our Goodreads To Be Read list and share it with the world. It’s hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners, so be sure to link back to her site so that we can all see what everyone plans to read! Metamorphica: Fiction by … Continue reading Goodreads Monday: Metamorphica
Sunday Sum-Up
The best-laid plans of mice.... I knew 2018 was going to be the Year of the New Devices. I replaced my dying phone in August, and was limping along with my aging computer. Then on Wednesday morning I turned it on and discovered the battery was at 90%, plugged in and not charging. If the … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up
